Will Republicans Have the Guts to Roll Back Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion? New at Reason

Saturday, February 18, 2017 8:11

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Medicaid is arguably the civilized world’s worst health insurance program. But Republican efforts to roll back the expansion of this program by Obamacare are going to run into a buzzsaw of political opposition, notes Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia. What they need is a president with the grit and perseverance that President Obama showed to get this monstrosity through Congress. This is not only because liberals will play up the threat to the millions of patients currently on Medicaid that Republican repeal-and-reform efforts pose, but oppostion from the party itself.